Tag: Labor
The myth of men’s full-time employment
Sarah Damaske, Penn State and Adrianne Frech, Ohio University
Men’s employment in the U.S. reached a 20-year high in...
Philadelphia’s minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since...
Michael O'Bryan, Drexel University and Alicia Atkinson, Drexel University
In Philadelphia, the poorest big city in the U.S., the...
Why is free time still so elusive?
Gary Cross, Penn State
There have been massive gains in productivity over the past century.
So...
Workers in their teens and early 20s are more likely to...
Diane Rohlman, University of Iowa
Think about your first job. Maybe it was delivering pizza, bagging groceries, busing tables...
Workplace discrimination saps everyone’s motivation − even if it works in...
Brent Simpson, University of South Carolina
When people work for discriminatory managers, they put in less effort. That’s true...
What do a Black scientist, nonprofit executive and filmmaker have in...
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
American workplaces talk a lot about...
Reality TV show contestants are more like unpaid interns than Hollywood stars
David Arditi, University of Texas at Arlington
In December 2018, John Legend joined then-newly elected U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers –...
Kathleen Sexsmith, Penn State; Francisco Alfredo Reyes, Penn State, and Megan A. M. Griffin, Connecticut College
Television crime shows...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
